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VS10 on the horizon

Gill Cleeren

Visual Studio.net

September 18, 2008

Appearantly, the next version of Visual Studio, version 10, is starting to take shape. While no (public) CTP/early build has been released of this version, Microsoft is working hard on taking the IDE again one step further... Or should I say, many steps? Read on!

Jeffrey Schlimmer posted some information on his blog that outlines where Microsoft is taking the new version of Visual Studio, code-named Hawaii. It seems that there will be 4 main areas of, let's say, BIG improvements:

Experience: Make Visual Studio the developer's favorite application

Customer: Focus on a specific customer's needs; for this release, the small-to-medium business developer

Platform: Ride the latest platform technologies; for this release, the 2009 technologies

Architecture: Take the first of many steps to improve the infrastucture

Visual Studio will start taking advantage of WPF: the editor will be WPF-based and in general, VS10 will be more modular and have fine-grained extensibility. Multi-monitor and multi-core will also become available, as well as a more modern look, again based on WPF.

Also, while not becoming Notepad in terms of startup-time, VS will become smaller and faster. In my personal opinion, with every new version, the load time has been more and more reduced.

Posted on: Friday, September 19, 2008 12:32:57 AM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00) | Comments [1]

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:56:26 PM (Romance Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

"Also, while not becoming Notepad in terms of startup-time, VS will become smaller and faster. In my personal opinion, with every new version, the load time has been more and more reduced."

I dont know what u do with these versions, but in my opinion, every new release loads slower. I use every version daily on the same laptop and vs2003 is definitely quicker then vs2005 while vs2008 is more like to be "Launch and take a coffee break" to start.

Where do u get these figures??????

Adalton

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